Beer Review Golden Ale – Red Hill Brewery.
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Especially on this VERY hot Melbourne summers day… 38 degrees celcius / 100 degrees fahrenheit makes for excellent beer drinking weather.
After the last few beer reviews where I broke away from the “birthday beers” format with my Special Guest Beer Reviewer, Simon, I thought it was time to return to the ‘fridge and grab myself another unknown wrapped up cold one.
So, here we are with Birthday Beer number 11, which turned out to be “Golden Ale” from Red hill Brewery, near Melbourne, In Australia.
Golden Ale, at first tatse, was great. And the second mouthful proved to be even better. A subtle and slightly sweet taste initially, it quickly gave way to a more European style hop sensation. It was, in fact, quite golden in colour, and had exactly the right amount of bubbles….. I didn’t count them, so I can’t quite put a numerical value to quantify “extactly the right amount of bubbles”, but it was juuuust right.
Crisp and dry, this Golden Ale is a beer to be consumed…. savoured slowly, quaffed quickly… it doesn’t matter, because either way it tastes fantastic.
Red Hill is an area about an hours drive south west of Melbourne, Australia. It’s in a delightful little part of the world known as the Mornington Peninsular, where there are beach towns and farm land in abundance. Red Hill is known for its wineries – some absolute gems of wines come from this area. Simon ( aka one third of my Forty Beers, and Special Guest Beer Review Dude) and his lovely wife Jen were married at one of these wineries.
The Red Hill Brewery website mentions that they are ”a beer oasis in a sea of wine”. They make a big deal of growing their own hops, and it would appear that they are a destination – cafes, restaurants, bars, brewery tours, etc. While I have never been there, next time I’m in the area I certainly will make the time to stop by and have a look, and most definately a taste. Or two. Or three…… I’d better get my wife to drive home….
I like Golden Ale from the good people at Red Hill Brewery. On the Forty Beers Cheers O Meter, I reckon this is a very worthy 9 out of 10.
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Thanks,
Matthew
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Tags: Ale, Australian Beer
I’ve been to the brewery. All I can say is if you intend to visit try to avoid weekends during school holidays! They are a very popular spot for a bite of lunch with the tourist set, or at least those who haven’t been able to get a table at Montalto or t’Gallant (two wineries close by that also do nosh as well as the stuff to get you sloshed).